Clothesline hanger



June 1929- A. PAWELSKI 1.716.282

V CLdTHE-SLINE HANGER v Filed Nov. 17; 1927 26 43 "imw 45 w 4 INVENTOR.

Patented June 4, 1929.

. "UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ADAM IPAWELSKI, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTHESLINE HANGER.

This invention relates to a new and useful.

device in the nature of a clothes line hanger especially adapted for the purpose of providing a slidable member by means of which a portion of the clothes line may be extended into the room permitting clothes and the like to be easily and readily hung on the said clothes line and which will permit the clothes line and my improved hanger to be slidably removed from the said room permitting the window to be closed. The above is accomplished without interfering with the tensioning of the clothes line and the clothes hung thereon. I

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of my improved clothes line hanger as same would appear when in use.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view thereof.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevational View illustrating in particular the locking mechanism as embodied in my improved device.

Fig. 5 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the locking mechanism.

As here embodied my improved device comprises a bracket 10 prefereably of angle iron secured as at 11 to the side member 12 of a window frame. A support 13 preferably of angle iron is secured as at 14 to the bracket 10 intermediately thereof and at right angles thereto. The guide member 15 is secured as at 16 to the support 13 at its extended portion and extends somewhat beyond the said extended portion of the support 13. The guide member 15 has formed therein an aperture preferably of rectangular transverse form adapted to slidably receive the arm 16.

The bracket 17 is secured as at 18 to the inner extremity of the arm 16 and extends therefrom having its extremity formed or bent downwardly as at 19 and has secured thereto and extended therefrom plate members 20 and 21. The pulley 22 is rotatively mounted on the pin 23 carried in the plate members 20 and 21. The said pulley 22 is vertically disposed or positioned intermediate the said plate members 20 and 21. The arm 16 has its outer extremity 24 formed or bent somewhat downwardly below the main portion thereof. The pulley 25 is rotatively mounted on the pin 26 carried in the forward extremity 24 of the arm 16 and in the bracket 27 secured as at 28 to the forward extremity of the arm 16 and extended somewhat below the said forward extremity, the said pulley 25 being horizontally disposed.

Supports 29 and 30' are secured to the above mentioned bracket 10 below the said support 13 and extend at right angles to the said bracket parallel to the support 13. Brackets 31 and 32 preferably of angle iron are secured to the extended portions of the supports 29 and 30 and are positioned or spaced so as to form an opening adapted to freely receive the pulley 33 rotatively mounted on the pin 34 carried in the brackets 31 and 32. The said pulley 33 being vertically disposed and positioned intermediate the said brackets 31 and 32. p

The bracket 35 is secured as at 36 to the above mentioned bracket 10. The locking member 37 is rotatively and slidably mounted on the pin 38 secured to the bracket 35. The pin 38 extends somewhat above the bracket 35 and is provided with an enlarged upper extremity 39 or head. The expansion spring 40 iswound or positioned on the pin 38 intermediate the locking member 37 and the head 39 of the said pin. The latter described construction is such as will permit the spring 40 to hold the extended portion 41 of the locking member 37 in engagement in any desired one of the notches 42 formed in the arm 16 as a means of holding the said arm in any desired position. The locking member 37 is provided with a handle element 43 extended therefrom adapted to accommodate the thumb or finger of a person for raising the locking member against the downward action of the spring 40 as a means of disengaging the said locking member so as to permit the arm 16 to be freely slid in any desired position. The

locking member may be partially rotated for moving it into an inoperative position.

It will be further understood that a pulley 44 rotatably mounted on a hanger,45, pin, or the like, is secured to the post 46, an adjacent building or the like and that the clothes line 47 having its extremities tied together so as to form an endless or continuous line is extended over the pulley 46 and extends therefrom over the pulleys 33, 25, and 22 as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing. It is obvious from the foregoing description that the arm 16 may be slidably positioned as may be desired so as to extend inside the room or window frame to which same is attached as shown in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing, or the said arm 16 may be slidably positioned or extended outside the said room or Window frame as designated in the dot and dash lines 48 in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

In a clothes line support, the combination with aslidable horizontal clothes line rod having a plurality of spaced transverse notches on its top side, of a bracket, a vertical pin with gaging in one of the said notches in one position, and adapted to be raised and rotated on the pin for movement to an inoperative position out of the notches, and an expansion spring between the said enlarged head and the locking member for urging the locking member downwards In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

an enlarged head projecting therefrom, a

locking member mounted on the pin for en- ADAM PAVVELSKI. 

